Another word for mountainous
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Adjective
Of extraordinary size and power
- Exceptionally large:
- Used as an intensive:
- Very large; huge:
- Very fine; impressive:
- Used as an intensive:
- Very great in size, extent, or quantity.
- Very great in scope or import:
- An immense space.
- Extremely large in amount, extent, or size; enormous:
- Very great in scope or importance:
- Remarkable; outstanding:
- Of or relating to the Titans.
- Having great stature or enormous strength; huge or colossal:
- Of enormous scope, power, or influence:
- So great in scope, degree, or importance as to amaze:
- Extremely large in amount, extent, or size; enormous:
- Remarkable; outstanding:
- Of, relating to, or resembling a python.
- Of or resembling an oracle; prophetic.
- Of extraordinary size and power.
- Impressively great in size, force, or extent; enormous:
- Extraordinary; marvelous:
- Portentous; ominous.
- Of, resembling, or serving as a monument.
- Impressively large, sturdy, and enduring.
- Of outstanding significance:
- Shockingly hideous or frightful in appearance.
- Of or resembling a fabulous monster.
- Exceptionally large; enormous:
- An imaginary or legendary creature, such as a centaur or Harpy, that combines parts from various animal or human forms.
- A creature having a strange or frightening appearance.
- An organism that has structural defects or deformities.
- Having or showing great power, skill, strength, or force:
- Imposing or awesome in size, degree, or extent:
- To a great degree; extremely. Used as an intensive:
- Having great mass or bulk; massive.
- Consisting of or making up a large mass; bulky, heavy, and solid:
- Having relatively high mass:
- Large or imposing, as in quantity, scope, degree, intensity, or scale:
- Any of various extinct elephants of the genus Mammuthus of the Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene Epochs, having ridged molars and often, as in the woolly mammoth, long tusks and hair.
- Something that is of great size.
- Of enormous size, extent, or amount; huge.
- An unusually large person, animal, or thing.
- Unusually large:
- Very great in size, extent, or amount:
- Of great scope or consequence:
- Of exceedingly great size, extent, or quantity.
- Of exceedingly great scope or nature:
- Contributing in a major way to success; very important:
- Of, relating to, or resembling the heroes of literature, legend, or myth.
- Having, displaying, or characteristic of the qualities appropriate to a hero; courageous:
- Impressive in size or scope; grand:
- Of unusual size, power, or difficulty.
- Of or relating to Hercules.
- Resembling Hercules.
- Exceedingly large in size, extent, or amount, especially for its kind:
- Very great in scope or importance:
- Of enormous size or magnitude; huge.
- A person or thing of great size.
- A person or thing of extraordinary power, significance, or importance:
- One of a race of humanlike beings of enormous strength and stature who were destroyed in battle with the Olympians.
- Of immense size, extent, or quantity.
- Of exceedingly great scope or nature:
- Very great in size, extent, or amount.
- Very great in scope or import:
- Very wicked; heinous.
- Of or relating to an elephant.
- Enormous in size or strength:
- Ponderously clumsy.
- Relating to or suggestive of a Cyclops:
- Very big; huge:
- Of or constituting a primitive style of masonry characterized by the use of massive stones of irregular shape and size.
- Of great size, extent, or amount; immense.
- Of great scope or consequence; monumental:
- Of, relating to, or suggestive of the allegorical writings of John Bunyan.
- Of, relating to, or suggestive of the legend of Paul Bunyan.
- Of astonishingly large size:
- Immense; enormous.
- Something enormous in size or power.
- A huge animal, possibly the hippopotamus, described in the Bible.
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Another word for mountainous
Modifier
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- Having a rough irregular surface:
- Having strong features marked with furrows or wrinkles:
- Having a sturdy build or strong constitution:
- Abounding in cliffs.
- Having crags:
- Rugged and uneven:
- simple past tense and past participle of ridge
- Of imposing height.
- Outstanding; preeminent:
- Very great or intense:
- Of, resembling, or caused by a volcano or volcanoes:
- Produced by or discharged from a volcano:
- Characterized by the presence of volcanoes.
- Raised, especially above the ground:
- Increased in amount or degree:
- Morally or intellectually superior.
- Of, in, or caused by the air.
- Existing or living in the air.
- Reaching high into the air; lofty.
- Land or an area of land of high elevation, especially when level.
- Land in the interior of a country.
- Of, relating to, or located in an upland.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Alps or their inhabitants.
- Of or relating to high mountains.
- Living or growing on mountains above the timberline:
- Having many hills.
- Similar to a hill; steep.
- Of imposing height.
- Elevated in character; exalted.
- Affecting grandness; pompous.
- Having a sharp inclination; precipitous.
- At a rapid or precipitous rate:
- Excessive; stiff:
- Far from others or difficult to get to; remote:
- Occasional or rare:
- Characterized by little social contact:
- Not being acquainted; not conversant:
- Not within one's knowledge; strange:
- Existing, living, or going without others; alone:
- Happening, done, or made alone:
- Remote from civilization; secluded:
- Uninhabited, having no human residents.
- Being in an unrefined or natural state:
- Lacking tact or taste; blunt or offensive:
- Lacking in sophistication or subtlety; simplistic:
- Ill-mannered, discourteous, or insulting:
- Undeveloped or uncivilized; primitive:
- Crude, unfinished, or made with limited skill:
- Not civilized; barbarous.
- Located far away; distant in space.
- Hidden away; secluded:
- Distant in time:
- Not previously known; unfamiliar:
- Not of one's own or a particular locality, environment, or kind; not native:
- Out of the ordinary or difficult to account for; unusual or peculiar:
- Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact.
- Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed:
- Not inhabited or farmed:
- Uncivilized or barbarous.
- Primitive or undeveloped in culture and customs; uncivilized.
- Lacking refinement or culture; coarse:
- Characterized by savagery; very cruel:
- Requiring considerable effort or skill; not easy to do or accomplish:
- Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying:
- Not easy to comprehend, solve, or explain:
- A natural elevation of the earth's surface having considerable mass, generally steep sides, and a height greater than that of a hill.
- A large heap:
- A huge quantity:
- Resembling a mountain or some aspect of one.
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